Introducing MadCap Flare 2017 r2: Top Nav Updates, Salesforce Integration and More

Jennifer Morse| Product Evangelist

• Fixed (“Sticky”) Headers: Top Nav Only

• Tree Format for Slide Out Menus: Top Nav Only

• Fixed (“Sticky”) Topic Menus: Top Nav Only

• Heading Option for Topic Menus: Top Nav Only

• Synchronizing Navigation Elements with TOC Entries

• Favicons: Top Nav and Tripane

• Google Search: Top Nav and Skinless

• Salesforce Connect

Flare 2017 r2 Features:

To Google or Not to Google?

Pros

• It’s Google, so… yeah

• Include multiple outputs in custom search engine

• Include different file types in search

• Performance on mobile devices is different

• Finds results for searches typed incorrectly and

predictive search

Cons• Time and effort to set up

• Output must be available publicly; no firewall

• Speed of searches and indexing

• Search not tailored for Flare projects

– No control over weighting

– No search filter support

– Not a lot of customization of search result appearance.

– Does not show Flare glossary definitions

• Advertisements

PRESENTED BY

• Flare 2017 r2 with Salesforce Connect installed

• Salesforce Knowledge account

• Rights in Salesforce to publish to the Salesforce Knowledge

account

Salesforce Connect

Salesforce Connect Tips

• Clean XHTML target type

• Convert stylesheet styles to inline styles

Salesforce Connect Tips

• What you need on SF side

– Permission to publish to SF Knowledge

– Article types with a Rich Text Field

• Wait, I installed Flare 2017 r2 but I forgot to install

Salesforce Connect!

• Free 30 day trial

Additional Enhancements

• FrameMaker 2017 Import

• Faster Build Times

PRESENTED BY

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CERTIFIED TRAINING

As a webinar attendee, receive $100 OFF your next

advanced training course.

MadCap Flare CSS TrainingJuly 25-26, 2017 (web-based)

MadCap Flare Single Sourcing TrainingJuly 27-28, 2017 (web-based)

For more details, contact sales@madcapsoftware.com

Note: Courses subject to change. Availability based on student registration. Certain restrictions apply;

cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Not valid on courses already purchased.

Thank you!

Jennifer Morse| Product Evangelist

jmorse@madcapsoftware.com